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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 months

In ‘Shifting Spaces: How Public Transport Reshapes Cities,’ I write for @thecaravanindia on how public transport shapes cities by looking at the metro rail, buses, segregation, production of space, gendered space, and middle-class consumption patterns.

How public transport reshapes cities

Writing on segregation and displacement in urban contexts has examined how caste, religion and class shape who gets to live where in Indian cities. More recently, who can travel, and where to, has...

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

The audacity of questioning ‘merit’ of historically marginalised communities when you have studied in DPS RK Puram, St Stephen’s, and Oxford yet fail to differentiate between affirmative action in electoral politics and higher education courtesy of your sub-par research skills.

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Ankush

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3 years

An OBC PHD candidate of modern history who secured 7th rank in unreserved category and 2nd in OBC category receiving 4/30 in their viva reeks of nothing but casteist biases from casteist parasites inside JNU who refuse to be fair towards students from marginalised communities.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

4 months

Overused template ‘science stream’ students post how “Arts and commerce kids could never imagine—” Yeah, they couldn’t imagine it because it was part of your coursework, not theirs, just the way you couldn’t imagine the experience of dealing with chapters they studied.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

After consideration for two years, I have finally decided to follow the path shown by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar on 14 October, 1956 and have embraced Buddhism today, on 14 October, 2022 at Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

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I once saw a Tweet that said if you ever think you have an 'original idea,' go through the Economic and Political Weekly archives—you’ll find someone has written on it. After combing through EPW for weeks, I can confirm this is true.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

My father wrote a short post on LinkedIn, celebrating his joy on finding out that his son got into a central university currently recognised as the best by the government. However, an employee at a well-known Indian IT company asked him to be careful that I don’t get converted.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

I was in need of a laptop for more than a year but didn’t really want to bother my parents so I started taking up multiple freelance projects and also started doing two internships simultaneously to earn and save up enough. Eventually, I was able to buy it on my own.

Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

MacBook Air with M1 chip, who?

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

One of my teachers informed me that the assignment I turned in last week has the potential to be turned into a working paper, which I completed ten minutes before the deadline. Also, got nominated to be part of my department’s literary society. Today was definitely a great day.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

As someone whose parents could not graduate college & didn’t receive an English medium education either, I managed to clear the entrance for a central university yet I am subjected to subtle casteist jabs even by Savarnas claiming to be anti-caste and progressive on social media.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

@krownnist What was with Rani’s obsession with teaching martial arts as if that will solve the entire issue? Young children, especially women, often point out problematic things done by their relatives in familial settings which are shut down. Where does martial arts come into play here?

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

My story of discovering Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and following his footsteps on Dhammachakra Parvartan Diwas in 2022, going from struggling with my caste identity to asserting it, I write in the @IndianExpress :

A student writes: Why I converted to Buddhism

My decision is based on my engagement with B R Ambedkar’s work and Buddhism. I began considering conversion when I realised that no matter how much I study, some people might be seen as superior to...

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

1 year

It baffles me how some teachers, even in college, will give out more marks to students if they show up to class everyday even after submitting a school project like document, as opposed to someone who submits a working paper with analysis, data, and literature review.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

“Any claim for the sharing of power by the minority is called communalism while the monopolizing of the whole power by the majority is called nationalism.” — Ambedkar, B.R. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches Vol 1. Dr. Ambedkar Foundation, p. 427, 2014.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

A summary of Sukhadeo Thorat and Paul Attewell’s study ‘The Legacy of Social Exclusion: A Correspondence Study of Job Discrimination in India’ which studied the roles played by caste and religious identities when applying to private enterprise sector for employment, a thread 🧵

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

5 months

There is manual scavenging happening near JMI campus without protective gear. @KhanAmanatullah , please look into this as it is your constituency and since it is punishable to employ scavengers without gear under The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers Act, 2013.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

6 months

After a considerable amount of effort and time, I finally submitted my bachelor's dissertation titled, ‘Navigating the Delhi Metro: A Study of the Last-Mile Connectivity.’ As a sociologist in training with an interest in cities, this has been really close to my heart.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

My parents did not mention my caste anywhere in the school forms since they were worried that it might lead to social ostracisation. Alas, all that went for a toss when a teacher remarked that my English was ‘too good’ for someone from my ‘community.’ I was around ten back then.

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How old were you when you, for the first time realised that there exists something called 'casteism' and you are at the victim end of it?

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

1 year

Hello! I’m a first-generation Bahujan learner in my final year of Bachelors of Sociology Hons. I’m looking to apply abroad for masters, but unable to figure my way around scholarships. I would appreciate if someone could guide me. Please retweet, thank you! #AcademicTwitter

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

5 months

In 1946 (in all likelihood), Dr Ambedkar wrote to Prof Du Bois inquiring about the petition by the National Negro Congress to the United Nations. In July 1946, Du Bois replied, informing him that he was familiar with him and had "every sympathy with the untouchables of India."

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

For Halloween, I will be going as myself because someone with SC & OBC ancestry with grandfathers who were workers being fluent in English and using Apple devices is scary enough for a few Savarnas. I’ll go around with my iPhone & iPad and shout, “Boo!” Happy Halloween, besties!

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

Furthermore, when people (SCs, STs, OBCs, and even some Savarnas) point out the factual inaccuracies in your book, you see this as an opportunity to promote your other work where you speak of casteism when your husband celebrates his ‘GSB pride’ on Twitter seems quite hilarious.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

“This was a different experience from that of the nationalist elite. Gandhi may have travelled third class on trains out of conviction, but Ambedkar did so out of necessity. — Omvedt, Gail. Ambedkar: towards an enlightened India. Penguin UK, 2017.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

4 years

Please don’t tell me anyone still believes that Instagram content creators getting traction on social media platforms has got nothing to do with privilege. The ‘content’ they create, if done by a person with less financial & social capital would be ignored or seen as ‘cringe’.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 months

In “Shifting Spaces: How Public Transport Reshapes Cities,” I write for @thecaravanindia on public transport reshapes our cities. I look at the metro, the bus, segregation, production of space, gendered space, and consumption patterns of the middle class.

How public transport reshapes cities

Writing on segregation and displacement in urban contexts has examined how caste, religion and class shape who gets to live where in Indian cities. More recently, who can travel, and where to, has...

caravanmagazine.in

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

Went to the campus only to find out that most of our classes were cancelled so we went to eat Kebabs instead.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

In 'Generational Capital and the "Privileged Bahujan",' I write in @epw_in 's postcript on how students from marginalised groups are often assumed to be equivalent to their peers from privileged social groups, which erases layers of nuances. (1/5)

Generational Capital and the ‘Privileged Bahujan’

To assume that a Bahujan with higher education and some material wealth is as privileged as their forward-caste peers with generations of social capital and privilege is an oversimplification.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

5 months

Delhi remains a great example of the delusional nature of the urban middle class or, rather, the pretence of being unaware. The voting patterns are often driven by personal interests at the expense of the marginalised, in favour of protecting their class interests.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

8 months

One of the few Savarnas who is not equating their position with caste minorities and acknowledging the primary reason for leaving their Indian citizenship: accumulation of (even more) capital. Meanwhile, most pretend like avoiding persecution, fashioning a hero out of themselves.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

4 years

How to be an ally if you’re an UC individual; a thread. 1. If you organise an event, ensure that majority of the people, if not all, taking part in it belong to the Dalit community, especially women and the LGBTQIA+ It’s their fight and they must be given the space to speak.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

A friend and I were discussing how Twitter seems to be a space where Savarnas in cities sitting within their university campuses and reading circles make generalised statements about marginalised communities based on something they have read written by someone similar to them.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

These parasites will write books and papers about our oppression while making their careers out of it but will seldom let us progress even when we break multifaceted barriers and overcome generational trauma to perform as well as, in most cases outperform, their fellow Savarnas.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

I applied to an internship at a national apex body about a week ago. I had an interview two days ago and a briefing yesterday, I am on the way for my first day there. Wish me luck! P.S: Before some ignorant Savarna brings up ‘reservations’ here as well, I got it on LinkedIn.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

Two weeks ago, my mother and I visited Dr Ambedkar National Memorial. I ended up clicking a lot of pictures there, here are a few of them 💙

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

@TherkarAbhishek Students who are paying 9.8 lakh per annum for a liberal arts degree claiming to eat the rich, pinnacle of commodification of activism or do we have more to see?

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

Meritorious Savarnas believe that the British owe us reparations for the damage they did during the colonial rule in India, some believe China owe us reparations for Covid-19. Don’t the Savarnas owe reparations to the SCs, STs, and OBCs for the damage they have caused & still do?

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

@deepsealioness First of all, the film is ‘Kashmir Files.’ Secondly, if the North Indians are ‘Nazis’ for watching that film, what was your brother doing there? Was he there to conduct an ethnographic study of the audience or what?

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

@DrArjunKumar02 @newslaundry @BBCIndia @ndtv How did someone with AIQ 82 rank get into MD dermatology through general quota and you didn’t get in through AIQ 2, sir? Care to elaborate on that?

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

1 year

Though Marxist scholars like D.N. Jha have talked about Buddhist persecution by Hindus, there have been some among Hindus who have agreed to similar claims too. The famous Hindu monk, Vivekananda wrote that the Jagannath Puri temple was once a Buddhist shrine.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

10 months

Time and again, Savarna liberals slip up and show their true colours, how they are no better than the fascists they claim to oppose. People in Jharkhand are resilient against land-grabbing corporations and, not to mention the rest of the tweet, equally problematic.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

1 year

I am glad to announce that I am now a Research Assistant on a research project led by the University of Chicago in collaboration with Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, IIT-Delhi.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

In ‘the Sufi and the Sickle: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan,’ Shozab Raza recalls how he had been sitting with Allah Baksh Baloch in his guest room. The latter had a friend enter suddenly who saw a picture of Karl Marx and mistook him for a Pir.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

1 year

Pipeline of a Bengali academic descended from a Zamindar (mostly History): 1. Talk about European Colonialism and how South Asians must write about it to prevent appropriation. 2. Refuse to see the same logic vis-a-vis their family’s history of oppressing marginalised castes.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

While they might have been grown up in an environment different than me, as my parents aren’t Savarnas nor were they financially stable when I was born, I was taught to not look down upon people. Alas, if only formal education and growing up rich taught you decency and kindness🤷‍♂️

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

Last week, I came across the issue of Economic & Political Weekly which has my article in it in my university’s central library so I went ahead and got myself a physical copy. It’s been over a month since it got published but seeing it in a physical copy seems surreal.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

4 years

@RichaChadha How does holding the broom in your hand for the poster make any sense? Prior to her political career, Mayawati Ji was a teacher.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

@_vintage_violet @Bharati09 @raatemugul It is wrong because ‘encroaching’ means taking up land which does not belong to you, while the authorities crack down upon the working class for encroaching land which they often do to make a living or necessity, the rich do it on a usual basis but no one cares.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

11 months

I was advised to consider working on something innovative instead of being repetitive for my undergraduate thesis.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

Admissions to Jamia Millia Islamia’s UG courses are open, some through CUET & some through Jamia’s entrance. If any SC, ST or OBC student requires any assistance with their admission, please feel free to reach out! Last date for CUET’s registration is 6th May & JMI is 12th May.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

“Nice iPhone of yours” Thank you @DrShreya_30 , my parents whose fathers were workers in factories have been running a business together for about two decades without a college degree to ensure I get access to what they couldn’t. I’m glad you appreciate their dedication😊

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar remained critical of Hinduism throughout his life and eventually converted out of it. He has described it as a “veritable chamber of horrors” and considered it “a menace to liberty, equality, and fraternity.”

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

Hello, an urgent appeal A Dalit man in his late 30s has troubles with employment since he has done only a diploma in mechanical engg after his twelfth grade. He wants to continue his education for better employment as he is the sole earner for himself, his wife, and parents.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

1 year

My research paper ‘Babasaheb Ambedkar and Socialism: Quintessential Discourses’ has been published in the form of a book chapter in the edited volume ‘Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Vision for Self-Reliant India of 21st Century. It is available on @ResearchGate :

(PDF) Babasaheb Ambedkar and Socialism Quintessential Discourses

PDF | A plethora of texts have been written and rewritten on Ambedkar, whose presence has only grown since Independence, unlike any other leader.... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

11 months

Jawaharlal Nehru University, earlier today.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

@shireenazam Do these NRIs also tell tales of the struggles of their grandfathers having to walk for long to go to school to become a doctor or a lawyer while ancestors of many people from marginalised communities weren’t even allowed access to education to begin with?

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Ankush

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1 year

Since last year in October, when I had my first article published online and had presented at a conference for the first time, I have come a long way when it comes to conferences and publications. However, I never expected my research paper to be published as a chapter in a book.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

4 years

@RichaChadha Also, it is quite ironic how a film is being made about the DBA community yet the majority of the cast are descendants of the perpetrators of the very system which Mayawati Ji Manyawar Kanshiram fought against with. Are there no artists from the community in the industry?

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

In a class today when the teacher was mentioning interest and pressure groups, she mentioned Bhim Army and recommended @confusedvichar ’s podcast in case someone wanted to learn about caste in contemporary times without having to read a lot.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

Hi, I’ll host a Twitter Space on “Do ‘progressive’ Savarnas give Bahujan voices space?” on 8th May at 8:30 PM (IST). All are welcome to join as listeners but speaking priority will be given to Bahujans, especially non cis men. Find below speakers who will definitely be there

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

Is it normal to feel aimless and lonely just because of one person leaving? The inexplicable hollowness which keeps growing, how everyone and everything — except for them and their presence — not changing feels irrelevant since that one person won’t be there anymore.

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@ankushpal2001

2 months

“Citation is how we acknowledge our debt to those who came before; those who helped us find our way when the way was obscured because we deviated from the path we were told to follow.” — Sara Ahmed

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@ankushpal2001

4 years

If any Savarna wants to be an ally then stop expecting people from the DBA community to be impressed by you for doing the bare minimum by sharing their art and writings. Please start with an organised form of agitation where you call out casteism amongst your own.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

2 years

I hope that Savarnas who claim to be allies to the marginalised caste folks understand that most of us do not have access to wealth while most Savarnas hold access to most of the wealth. One of us being well-off makes us an exception while it’s the norm for you.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

8 months

A conference on ‘Critical Philosophy of Caste & Race’ will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology — Delhi on 7th and 8th March 2024. Prof @GopalGuru10 will deliver a keynote lecture on ‘the Shared Moral Universe of Dalits and Blacks,’ with eminent scholars in the line-up.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

9 months

The Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia invites you to a screening of Chaityabhumi, directed by @Somwaghmare on 12 February at 3:00 PM in the Seminar Room.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

11 months

My book haul from the annual book and bake sale yesterday.

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@ankushpal2001

3 years

Hi, two women have joked about this and I don’t get to talk about this. Am I overreacting or is this actually problematic?

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@ankushpal2001

3 years

A student pursuing Biology Hons in Jaipur is unable to pay her college fees due to financial crisis. She had scored above 90% in her boards. She needs to pay 23,000 soon. She wishes to be anonymous but the necessary proof can be sent if required. Retweet to amplify, it’s urgent

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@ankushpal2001

6 months

In my first year, I was eager to have my work published but unsure how to go about it. By the end of my second year, I was published in Economic and Political Weekly. In my final year, two co-authored articles have been accepted by two journals published by Routledge.

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@ankushpal2001

2 years

On the auspicious occasion of Dhammachakra Parvartan Diwas💙

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@ankushpal2001

3 months

Is there a term for those who inherit feudal wealth, move to cities, and pretend to be poor to facilitate ad hominem arguments? Universities are full of those venturing out, spewing venom against first or second generation learners while subtly boasting of wealth they inherited.

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@ankushpal2001

2 years

“The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible.“ — Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji. The Buddha and his dhamma: A critical edition. Oxford University Press, 2011. Happy Buddha Jayanti to all!

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@ankushpal2001

3 years

A timeline of a Savarna’s allyship to marginalised communities, based on a true story 2020: Dalit Lives Matter 2021: Organising fundraiser where only Savarnas perform 2022: Enabling hate against oppressed communities (screenshots attached below) Always be wary of Savarna allies

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@ankushpal2001

2 years

After the pandemic, our attention spans have gotten extremely terrible. I went from being able to go through one book a week to struggling with one for a month. Once June starts, I will try to go back to my reading habits by trying to finish 50 books by the end of the year.

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3 months

Spent the evening reading @anurag_bhaskar_ ’s ‘the Foresighted Ambedkar’ at @LodhiReads .

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@ankushpal2001

2 years

Looking for any and all work (articles, books, research papers) done on friendships, across genders, especially in university spaces in South Asia. Preferable if friendship is studied in contrast to romantic relationships and how both are perceived by others. Retweet to amplify!

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1 year

The discussion around the Uniform Civil Code is bound to bring up polygamy. The International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) has published a research report back in June 2022, based on responses gathered by National Family Health Survey up to NFHS-5 (2019-21).

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2 years

Today marks Phoolan Devi’s birth anniversary. While mainstream feminists erase her due to her approach and caste background, she is a symbol of resistance against gendered caste-based violence for the oppressed castes, especially women. Artwork: @artedkar

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@ankushpal2001

3 years

The pandemic hasn’t affected us all ‘equally’, there are varying degrees of socio-economic disparities. Not everyone has access to social media, they are helpless. People who cremate dead bodies are at risk due to exposure & I don’t think they’re listed under ‘frontline workers.’

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4 years

@OkSandhya How is mocking someone on the basis of how they speak in English funny, not to mention how they’re name nor picture is blurred out all in the name of creating ‘content’? I fail to understand why someone with privilege chooses to mock someone who lacks it?

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@ankushpal2001

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If you are from SC, ST, OBC, Muslim, Kashmiri or North-East Indian backgrounds and looking to pursue your graduate studies abroad, please apply for @ProjEduAccess Graduate Mentorship Programme, which is free of charge. The deadline for the application is 11:59 tonight.

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That moment when you’re tweeting about Dr. Ambedkar without knowing the basics of his political thought and personal life.

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2 years

A common fallacy is viewing the OBCs as a homogenous community & assuming that they face marginalisation in the exactly manner as the SCs & STs do. While they do face casteism, their hierarchal position must be taken into account as caste is a system of graded inequality. (1/7)

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Apparently, people whose families have had undergraduate (and, in some cases, graduate) degrees are calling themselves ‘first-generation’ learners lately. They claim that everyone before them ‘could not get any further than IITs and JNU,’ while they aspire to study abroad.

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It is hilarious how these students who spend majority of their life trying to ‘focus on NEET/JEE’ claim to be unaware of social or political issues. There are many SCs, STs, and OBCs who try the same yet are forced to encounter reality since they are often the targets of violence

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2 years

While there have been constant misinformation and myths propagated by many against reservations, especially about it being limited to ten year and making it out to be a poverty alleviation programme, recent trend of ‘this house belongs to an SC friend…’ is being copied by many.

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A Happy Ambedkar Jayanti to all!💙 Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar is often reduced to merely a ‘Dalit leader’ and it is our responsibility to ensure that his academic caliber and dedication to social justice for the downtrodden be brought to light. We are because he was. #jaibhim

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@ankushpal2001

4 years

Normalising unacceptable behaviour portrayed by lead protagonists, not antagonists, which has led to many ending up ‘hero worshipping’ these characters only for to lack a moral compass. Please do me a favour, go through the screenshots and read everything. #boyslockerroom

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@ankushpal2001

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading @chowdhury_romit 's (Dr Romit Chowdhury) ‘City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport,' which I reviewed for @DaakVaak and recommend for those interested in gender studies, sociology, and urban studies.

City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport

Book: City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport, by Romit Chowdhury, Rutgers University Press, 2023; pp: 216. ISBN: 9781978829503, US$27.95. By Ankush Pal A plethora of f…

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@ankushpal2001

2 years

The fact that this happened in an English medium school in an urban region disproves commonly accepted notions on caste. An individual could accumulate economic capital yet be seen as the ‘other.’ There are many other incidents where people have been harassed in far worse ways.

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

In @sagarikaghose ’s new book, she conflates affirmative action in electoral politics with higher education. The ten year limit she refers to is restricted to electoral politics. Could a History graduate from St. Stephen’s not bother herself with basic research prior to writing?

Sagarika Ghose

@sagarikaghose

3 years

Caste-based reservations & liberal values. My ideas here for the kind attention of @netshrink @VidyaKrishnan @panditsTOI @RishiKant98 , @Sankul333 others. Refuse to be bullied into TV studio style “yes” or “no” answers, instead my considered arguments here (from my book)👇🏽:

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@ankushpal2001

4 years

I still remember the first time I heard @YashicaDutt speak at a panel discussion last year after which I read her book, ‘Coming Out As Dalit’ at least thrice. Her words gave me the courage to be assertive about my identity and to be vocal about it, something I’ll always cherish.

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@ankushpal2001

1 year

Last night, I had to unfortunately turn down a Research Assistant position with a faculty at Harvard University who considered me for the role. The reason was that I am already part of another research project. Ironic how I wasn’t able to find anything a month earlier.

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@ankushpal2001

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@zenith_sue She actually sang the intro song to Ben 10 😭

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@ankushpal2001

1 month

@DrStephCraig In the Global South, a plethora of first-generation learners try their best to learn the English language as it makes a significant impact in upwards mobility. The ‘overly formal’ terms are introduced to us through our school curriculum so it is not essentially AI generated.

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@ankushpal2001

4 months

I’m glad to share my review of the Oxford Handbook of Caste, edited by Prof @ssjodhka and Dr @JulesNaudet for @SociologyDoing .

The Oxford Handbook of Caste edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet (2023): A Review by...

The notion of caste is often seen as a remnant of the past, which India’s modernisation and development would push aside. The practice of caste has persisted in contemporary times but one that is...

doingsociology.org

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Ankush

@ankushpal2001

3 years

Hello, I’ll host a Twitter space discussion on “Do ‘progressive’ Savarnas give Bahujan voices space?” on 8th May at 8:30 PM (IST). Anyone can join as a speaker, preference will be given to DBA women & enbies. The speakers who will definitely be present will be mentioned below.

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@ankushpal2001

3 years

Press release by the first year students of various departments regarding reopening of Jamia Millia Islamia campus and resumption of offline classes.

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